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Spyro Gyra: A Foreign Affair

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Odori caraibici, jazz in senso ampio e soluzioni vagamente pop: sono questi gli elementi che caratterizzano il nuovo lavoro targato Spyro Gyra, caratteristiche che ne hanno segnato - con risultati alterni - l'intera carriera. A Foreign Affair è un contenitore dove trova posto una musica a volte trascurabile, come testimoniato dall'iniziale “Caribe," ma altre volte più intrigante, come la melodiosa “Canção de Ninar," e che spesso manca della concretezza necessaria per riuscire a rapire l'attenzione dell'ascoltatore. Altri passaggi trovano motivo ...

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Take Five with Jay Beckenstein

Read "Take Five with Jay Beckenstein" reviewed by Mark Scoop Malinowski


Status: Jazz artist. Founding member of the group Spyro Gyra. DOB: May 14, 1951 In: Brooklyn, N.Y. First Jazz Memory: “I met Cannonball Adderley when I was 12. He did a school performance around where I lived and I was just blown away." Inspirations: “The greats of jazz. My mother [Lorraine] was an opera singer and my father [Leonard] was a huge jazz fan, he just loved jazz. He turned me on ...


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